Reading Time: 6 minutes When I resigned from my last permanent job, I felt like contracting was my best option. At the time, I said I’d share about it but I didn’t do it much, so I’m catching up here. What I liked The first thing should really be that, I’ve been in that… Read More »Reflecting on a year of contracting
Reading Time: 3 minutes May be it should be called “Why didn’t I write for while?” It’s been about 4 months since the last post. Short answer: I have less to say, don’t feel the need to write it down or to share publicly. Much less to say about work That’s probably reason number… Read More »Why do I write?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Warning: there is a bit more venting in this post than usual. This is about how some people self-promote and show themselves to others in their social media bubble. Weeknotes everywhere If you are not familiar with the concept, you can learn more in this article: Weeknotes: what they are,… Read More »Dissonance and social media bubbles
Reading Time: 8 minutes This week, I presented a talk about inclusion at SDinGOV. One of the questions at the end was about the one thing I would like people to work on, and the first thing that came to mind was about being more inclusive in the workplace. I don’t think we are… Read More »Inclusion in the workplace
Reading Time: 5 minutes Last time I wrote about the blog itself was in August 2021. For anyone curious, here is a peek behind the scenes. As explained before in “How this blog is doing“, I have Jetpack, a plugin on WordPress which provides me with some stats for free. Some are useful, some… Read More »Looking at this blog in 2023
Reading Time: 5 minutes I’m in my third role this year, which is a personal record but looking back, once again, it was the right decision for me. This post is a little retro about the year. Work Resigning Twice this year, I left a place shortly after joining because even though it looked… Read More »2023 Retrospective
Reading Time: 4 minutes I’ve left my last role at the end of July, and since then, I’ve had what some would call a ‘career gap’, or if you are a bit more positive a ‘career break’. I would call it ‘a pause’. This post is about what I’ve been up to and why… Read More »Career gap / break / pause
Reading Time: 10 minutes My first time at SDinGOV was in 2019. At the time, I was pretty sure I wanted to be a service designer but never had the role title yet. I would never have thought I’d be one of the speakers one day, but here you go. You can access my… Read More »SDinGOV 2023 – Highlights and experience
Reading Time: 3 minutes I did yes! But what I do during my time off is usually not what others would consider nice or fun, like spending most of my day re-doing my professional journey as a tube map. Mondays I have not been in a office for a long time now, but still… Read More »Did you have a nice weekend?
Reading Time: 8 minutes This is not a post about Agile ways of working. The title could have been: ‘Oops I did it again’: because yes, I recently resigned. again. This post is about my relationship to work and might be of interest to you if you are considering different ways of working. What… Read More »Ways of working